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Palau
Location marker · geographic overview
7.5° N / 134.5° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Ngerulmud
- Population
- 17,695 2024
- Area
- 459 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English, Palauan
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Geography
- Island country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Palau
Palau (Belau) is a group of more than 300 tropical islands in the Micronesia area of the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast of the Philippines.
Landscape & landmarks
Most visitor attractions are found on and around The Rock Islands or Chelbachebover. These 250 rock islands — many tiny, uninhabited places — offer some enchanting views and are a World Heritage site. Popular dives include Blue Corner, Blue hole and the German Channel.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Palau has large communities from Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Japan and the United States and the local stores have evolved to supply their needs. So Koror offers an amazing range of foodstuffs in its stores, at a price of course. Japanese-inspired Bento lunch boxes are very popular. Koror also has the largest concentration of restaurants.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-08. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Micronesia
- Calling code
- +680
- Internet domain
- .pw
- Land border codes
- None listed
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .pw. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.